Urban Studies Program

FIVE departments of the College have combined their resources to offer a new program in City Planning and Urban Studies as background for students who plan professional work in the field or desire a better understanding of urban problems.

The Departments of Sociology, Economics, Architecture, Geography and Government have pooled their resources to provide undergraduates with a broad perspective on the problems of the modern urban environment by supplementing their major field of study with the relevant courses.

A major part of the new program will be the urban studies research project inaugurated by Dartmouth and M.I.T. this spring. Under the joint project, directed by Prof. Robert C. Wood of M.I.T. and Prof. Franklin Smallwood '5l of the Dartmouth government department, ten or twelve students from the two institutions spend the spring term in metropolitan Boston on independent research in social studies, economics, politics, and city and industrial planning.

Dartmouth's city planning and urban studies program will be directed by Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of the Department of Sociology, with an advisory committee of faculty members from the other participating departments. They include Professors William L. Baldwin, economics; Edgar H. Hunter '38, architecture; Robert E. Huke '48, geography; and Mr. Smallwood.